Formosan sculptor Hu Shaoming ’s urban landscapes take care like something out of a fairy fib — golden city that hang upside down or steel towers that ride on a sea horse ’s head .
Hu explain that the sea horse piece , titled“City of Dreams,”is actually about the disordered nature of its fairy tale premise , the idea that nature is endure humanity ’s urban dreams , and will one sidereal day be exhausted . Perhaps when the sea horse originate weary of bob its metropolis at the airfoil , it will sink , have a bun in the oven the city down with it .
The golden series , his“Umbrella ” series , contains by his count 2,000 individual buildings , made of metal from clit , clothing accessory , utensil , food container , article of furniture fixtures , and other betting odds and goal of daily lifetime . For him , they represent the elbow room in which traditional Chinese culture is diminishing :
When these trivial detail of life are mirror in the glorious patchwork quilt of the ancient feng shui compass , I feel Formosan civilization decentralized , gear up in Japan ’s unique ethnical charm .
Hu ’s works are presently on display at the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts .
Hu Shaoming[viaMy Modern Met ]
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